Inside the brightly lit lobby.

In addition to Ouyang Rong, Pei Shisanniang, Qin Xiaoniang, and Hongxuan all looked at the sudden red-clothed girl with a surprised expression.

I saw that when she broke in, she looked eager and concerned, as if she was a close person of this Changshi Langjun.

Xie Lingjiang held the hilt of his sword in his hand and looked at Ouyang Rong, who only had a plain white shirt left on his body, for a while.

Little Lady Qin looked down at the man's robe on her body, reacted to something, and opened her mouth to speak.

Pei Sanniang remained silent, ready to watch.

But Ouyang Rong suddenly raised his hand.

"Yikes!"

Xie Lingjiang suddenly covered his white forehead, let out a cry of pain, and his beautiful eyes widened.

I rewarded a chestnut on the spot.

Ouyang Rong waved his hand and said, "What are you guessing, your imagination is so rich, let's go, it's okay." ”

He was the first to walk towards the door.

Xie Lingjiang was stunned and rubbed his head, which was awakened by the senior brother.

She nodded and honestly followed.

Just after crossing the threshold, Xie Lingjiang stopped.

"Senior brother, wait for me outside."

A flaming red dress turned her head and rushed into the lobby again.

Ouyang Rong stood in the courtyard, stretched out his hand behind his back, and waited quietly at the moon.

Oh, I saw Xie Lingjiang walk out of the lobby again, with a moon-white men's robe in his hand, neatly folded, draped on his lotus arm.

The red-robed girl holding the sword walked out with her head held high, leaving only a tall and slender back to the few girls in the lobby behind her.

"Let's go, brother." She beckoned.

Ouyang Rong nodded.

The two of them left the Youlan courtyard together.

On the way, they kept quiet and tacitly did not talk about what had just happened.

At the door of Xunyang Tower, Ouyang Rong and Xie Lingjiang met Wang Caozhi.

A short young man with a groom and his retinue waited in the alley by the lights.

"Sister, brother-in-law!"

Seeing the figures of Ouyang Rong and Xie Lingjiang, Wang Caozhi's eyes lit up and greeted him.

Hearing this, Xie Lingjiang, who was in the dark, turned his face slightly.

"Brother-in-law, where did you just go, why did my little brother and I just get out of the narcissus box, and your figure disappeared? After looking for half a circle, only you, the beloved horse, are still waiting outside. ”

Wang Cao's face was worried.

Ouyang Rong saw that behind him, a horseman was leading Dongmei out.

"I just had something to do, and I received an invitation at the moment...... It's okay now. ”

Ouyang Rong shook his head.

"It's okay."

Wang Caozhi breathed a sigh of relief, didn't ask much, just complained a little:

"Just now, Sister Jiang suddenly rushed in to find you, and asked me with a worried face, where have you been, little brother, I don't know how to answer, obviously I didn't have any second half arranged...... Ahem. ”

He muttered quieter, and under Xie Lingjiang's dangerous gaze, he covered his mouth and coughed twice, and obediently shut up.

"It's okay now, thank you for your concern, you can go back first."

Ouyang Rong said with a smile to Wang Caozhi.

"Okay, brother-in-law, don't bother you and Sister Ling Jiang, you can talk slowly, get back together, and the little brother will go."

Before the long legs under Xie Lingjiang's long skirt showed signs of flying kicking, Wang Caozhi shrank his head and fled.

The winter plum with its head bowed and its nose was left in place.

Ouyang Rong walked to lead the horse.

Xie Lingjiang silently followed.

At the mouth of the alley, between the two brothers and sisters, silence returned again.

Wait until you get to a place where the lights are a little brighter.

Ouyang Rong turned his head to look at Xie Lingjiang, and looked up and down calmly.

The little junior sister wore a popular peach floor-length dress among aristocratic ladies today, put on an elegant wine smudge makeup, and dotted two charming flowers on the dimples on her cheeks, and then took a closer look, and even put a light rouge thin powder...... I dressed up and went out on purpose.

It's just that at this moment, there is a layer of fine fragrant sweat on her forehead, and her well-dressed phoenix crown hair and sideburns are a little messy.

Apparently because he was in a hurry to find him.

And before that, the two of them obviously agreed that she was in Xunyang City, and she wanted to be a fair lady, gentle and well-behaved.

Ouyang Rong's gaze silently moved away from the long sword on Xie Lingjiang's waist that did not match the dress of a lady:

There was no reproach on his face, on the contrary, there was a little guilt.

"Senior brother, don't look at it, the makeup is all spent, what's so beautiful."

Xie Lingjiang turned sideways and raised the man's robe in his hand to cover his face.

Ouyang Rong nodded:

"When I called you with a skirt knife, I thought you were far away from the Xunyang Palace, and it would take a while to arrive."

Xie Lingjiang bit his lip: "When I sensed it, I was not far from Xunyang Tower, and I heard about it tonight...... I heard that this guy Wang Caozhi came to Xunyang City, and he was going to come over and take a look to see if this kid had listened to the words of the senior brother. ”

Ouyang Rong raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her more.

After thinking about it, he still didn't ask why the little junior sister was dressed so solemnly, and came over to make friends with the younger brother.

Don't poke her.

"It was a misunderstanding."

Ouyang Rong diverted the topic and briefly talked about Pei Sanniang's affairs.

Xie Lingjiang, who originally pretended to be careless, couldn't help but turn his head when he listened, and his face was extremely serious.

"It turns out that the beauty is a trick."

Xie Lingjiang nodded and concluded.

Ouyang Rong shrugged his shoulders: "Who would have thought that the top-notch Qingqi person who doesn't sell his body would come to this show." That Pei Sanniang has some means and will pinch women. ”

"Senior brother is so powerful, he is still young and handsome."

Xie Lingjiang looked at him sideways, and praised in his mouth:

"Maybe it's because I'm impressed by the charm of the big brother."

She smiled, in an uncaring tone:

"Well, Xiaolang is powerful and powerful, and Xiaoniang is beautiful, and you and I are willing."

"What do you want me, I don't want to."

"Like a jade beauty, pipa spring, lonely men and widows, isn't the senior brother excited at all?"

Heart?

Ouyang Rong wanted to say that he moved, but he was steadily suppressed by a certain skirt knife.

How dare you look up.

"Not impressed." Without hesitation, he shook his head firmly.

"Why is that?"

Xie Lingjiang bent his index finger, tapped his red lips, and looked at the senior brother, his voice was like a cat, and he was a little seductive:

"To get such a famous Xunyang and popular top brand Qingqi person who is sought after by tens of thousands of people to take the initiative to dedicate himself, the senior brother is really not tempted at all?

"Well, I'm a woman, and I'm inevitably a little tempted, but I hate not being a man."

"Not moved."

Ouyang Rong still shook his head firmly and said softly: "Because I know that there is an important person waiting for me outside." ”

Xie Jin Jiang choked, and the smile on his face disappeared.

Her voice trembled a little: "What...... What important people? ”

"My little sister."

Ouyang Rong smiled brightly and paused:

"Well, as a senior brother, of course I have to lead by example. At that time, at most, I threw a robe for the little lady Qin to wear, and if there was more, it would really be gone. ”

Seeing that he prevaricated again, Xie Lingjiang puffed out his mouth and put on a pretty face:

"Understood, it's still because I accidentally touched the skirt knife in advance and notified me to come, so I held back, okay, okay, next time I don't come, senior brother can do it to his heart's content, no need to care about his face."

Ouyang Rong nodded: "It's okay." Then I'll take off a few more pieces next time, I can't let people catch a cold. ”

"You dare?"

Xie Lingjiang glared and asked.

Ouyang Rong suddenly stretched out his hand, "Don't move." ”

"What are you doing?"

She subconsciously shrank back, but she was glared at by the man in front of her, and she suddenly had an honest and obedient impulse in her heart, not daring to disobey, nor willing to disobey, but a little excited to look forward to it.

"Your hair is messed up."

Xie Lingjiang's body paused, and when he raised his eyes, Ouyang Rong lifted a strand of hair that fell on her forehead behind her ear.

Xie Lingjiang was a little shy, her pretty face was facing his arms, and she wanted to dodge, but she immediately found that there was something pinned to her ear, she raised her hand and touched it, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was an orchid.

There is a faint fragrance lingering between the two.

"It's ......"

Ouyang Rong had already left, walked forward, and said without looking back:

"Just waiting for you to pick up the clothes, I picked one in the courtyard, and it looks good to wear."

After a pause, he whispered:

"Tonight...... Thank you for your hard work. ”

Xie Lingjiang was slightly stunned, stopped in place, and his cheeks were a little hot.

After a while, after the two walked out of the alley, a carriage from Xunyang Wangfu came and stopped in front of them.

Ouyang Rong helped Xie Lingjiang, who was dressed in full costume, to board the carriage.

He himself rode Dongmei and escorted him next to the carriage.

"Go to Huaiye Lane for one night and go back tomorrow morning."

"Okay."

On the way, through the thin curtain, the two chatted about Pei Sanniang again.

Xie Lingjiang whispered: "I don't like this woman. ”

Ouyang Rong nodded, lightly: "A very standard Jianghuai businessman, full of gold standard and official standard thinking,." ”

"The idea of the gold standard and the official standard?" Xie Lingjiang chewed on new words.

Ouyang Rong looked at her and explained:

"It can be understood that money is supreme, official position is supreme, and these two are precious and respected, especially the latter."

"No wonder she flatters the senior brother so much, but ......" Xie Lingjiang asked, "Most men should feel comfortable being carefully flattered and served by such a rich and colored beautiful woman, right?" ”

Ouyang Rong turned his head with a straight face:

"It's not me that she is in awe of, it's me in a crimson official uniform. Today she can respect me because of this crimson official uniform, and tomorrow, she can also obey another vermilion purple official uniform.

"I don't feel any comfort. The Tao is different, and they do not conspire with each other. ”

Xie Lingjiang looked at Ouyang Rong, who was righteously speaking, a little dazed.

"Senior brother can see it so clearly."

And she always has something new to say that makes her suddenly brighter.

After a while, she asked:

"What about the water control plan she proposed? There seems to be some truth. ”

Ouyang Rong nodded: "Feasible." ”

Xie Lingjiang was curious: "Then why did Senior Brother refuse directly?" ”

Ouyang Rong bathed in the oncoming river breeze and let out a long breath:

She wanted to renovate and reorganize Xingzifang and do the business of the rich and noble, but a city should not only accommodate the wealthy, but also give the poor a place to live.

"The prosperity of Xunyang City is by no means supported only by wealthy businessmen.

"In Xingzifang, there is more than one Huaimin brother.

"They are the foundation of Xunyang City's prosperity."

Xie Ling Jiang was thoughtful.

Between the two, there was a moment of silence.

Approaching Huaiye Lane, Xie Lingjiang suddenly asked:

"Senior brother, isn't it about to go on vacation?"

"Hmm."

Xie Lingjiang whispered: "During the holidays, how about the senior brother accompany me and Sister Bao'er to go shopping, attend some parties, and relax?" ”

Ouyang Rong hesitated: "Yes." ”

Xie Ling Jiang smiled happily.

Not long after, the carriage arrived at the Huaiye Lane mansion......

Following.

Ouyang Rong walked into the Jiangzhou lobby and continued to work, implementing the Shuangfeng Tip to dig and Xunyang Grottoes.

Bumped into Yuan Huaimin head-on.

Yuan Huaimin suddenly asked, "Brother Lianghan went to Xunyang Tower last night?" ”

Ouyang Rong paused and didn't look back: "Well, I've been there, what's wrong with Brother Huaimin?" ”

"Brother Lianghan is going to find Little Lady Qin, right?"

Ouyang Rong asked quietly: "How does Brother Huaimin know that I went to Xunyang Tower." ”

He quietly looked at the clothes on his body, it was obviously brand new, and there was no trace of the fragrance of Little Lady Qin last night.

Yuan Huaimin said bluntly:

"I was also in Xunyang Tower last night, and when I left, I saw Dongmei and guessed that you were also in Xunyang Tower, but I waited next to Dongmei for a while, and I didn't see you, so I went back in a hurry."

"I see." Ouyang Rong couldn't help but glance at Yuan Huaimin more: "What is Brother Huaimin doing in Xunyang Tower, and listening to piano music?" ”

"Yes, according to the usual practice, there was Qin Xiaoniang's pipa playing in Xunyang Tower last night, etc., didn't Brother Lianghan also want to listen to the pipa in the past, Brother Lianghan has something else?"

Yuan Huaimin shook his head: "I thought that Brother Lianghan listened to my description, and it was better to see than to hear." ”

Ouyang Rong kept smiling:

"It's all there, I want to listen to that little lady Qin's pipa music, there is a private banquet, it's a stopby, it's just ...... Luckily, I didn't think it was good, on the first floor of Xunyang Building last night, it seemed to be a song and dance performance, and I didn't see the figure of the pipa family. ”

"Ugh." Yuan Huaimin sighed: "I also pounced on the field, I heard that Qin Xiaoniang seems to be unwell, and she has been depressed recently, so she specially asked for leave, rested in the boudoir, and refused to receive guests." ”

He looked forward to his eyes: "Pipa everyone like Qin Xiaoniang, the owner of Xunyang Mansion is not good at calling her, playing or something, it depends on her mood, we were not very lucky last night, Brother Lianghan should be the first time to listen to pipa music, more unlucky than me." ”

Yuan Huaimin had the expression of an old brother who had come over, and patted the arm of Ouyang Rong, who looked ignorant and honest, with his palm, relieved:

"It's okay, there will be a chance next time, the coming day will be long, Qin Xiaoniang's pipa music, there will always be a chance to hear it, Brother Lianghan don't be disappointed."

"Okay, look forward to it." Ouyang Rong nodded and paused, "Next time, you must appreciate the beauty." ”

"It's a fairy sound, Qin Xiaoniang likes to cover up the veil, she covers it more on weekdays, and it's rare to see her face, I've been there so many times, and I've only seen it once, I hope Brother Lianghan can have such good luck next time."

"Good, good."

With his mouth in response, Ouyang Rong couldn't help but look at the honest man Yuan Huaimin, his eyes were slightly in a trance, as if something snow-white and dazzling flashed in front of him...... Ouyang Rong nodded solemnly:

"Okay, Brother Huaimin."

After the display and sharing, Yuan Huaimin left satisfied.

Ouyang Rong glanced at the backs of his colleagues and friends who were happily leaving, and a little strange guilt rose in his heart.

Two days later, the Jiangzhou lobby finally ushered in the long holiday of Yuanzheng.

This holiday is similar to Chinese New Year's Eve, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

However, officials in various places are forbidden to return to their hometowns for the holidays.

Ouyang Rong, who had been busy for a long time, finally had time to relax.

However, on the first day of this holiday, I only slept for a morning and was pulled out again......

(End of chapter)